Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pers pn] through [art] " in BNC.
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1 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
2 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
3 | The helmeted figure shouted at him through a face mask . |
4 | Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass . |
5 | The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence . |
6 | He grinned at us through the darkness . |
7 | He stared at her through the flickering shadows . |
8 | Lydia blinked at her through the misty light of the headlamps . |
9 | Madame looked at her through a veil of smoke which she fanned away with a jewelled hand . |
10 | His father told him that story : his father looked at him through a glass : he had a hairy face . |
11 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
12 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |
13 | Outside the city we passed by a refugee camp where white-faced , unsmiling boys and girls gazed at us through the railings . |
14 | ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up . |
15 | The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass . |
16 | Ryker loomed at her through the flames and she hurled the water both at him and at the fire . |